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TIL the 99 cheese pizza from TMNT is real.

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kONr7 TIL that Seth MacFarlane wanted to end Family Guy in 2011 "while the show was still strong."
E1dRX TIL that Russia ran out of Vodka while celebrating the German surrender in WW2.
XEgdQ TIL That the McRib can trace its roots back to a menu overhaul that took place over the late 70's/early 80's and the military masterpiece that is reconstituted meat.
nWGy9 TIL in 1982, 7 people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. James William Lewis sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." While he was convicted of extortion, he was never charged with the murders.
Ookgg TIL during the Revolutionary War the smallpox epidemic threatened the troops of G. Washington so badly he forbade inoculating troops fearing that doing so would make too many sick and leave the army without sufficient strength. Washington himself had been exposed when young making him immune.